Thanks! I'll give that a try when I'm back into work. I can log in with command line SSH, so that part works. Has to be userid/password login. Keys based ssh is not supported. I had looked at Net::SSH but wasn't sure where the eventual script would live, and didn't want to be dependent upon the underlying SSH. Also, it looked like I'd need to map a pty to the Net::SSH to support userid/password login.
George